Ray v. Farrow

The action is under the statute, and is in the nature of ejectment. The general affirmative charge, with hypothesis, was given at defendant’s request, in writing.

It is contended that the husband of the doweress and father of plaintiffs, Ransom G. Ray, had the possession of the lands sued for under claim of ownership from- 1857 to the time of his death during the Civil AVar; that he went to the war and “never came back from the army” ; that his wife and children were in the enjoyment of or in possession of the home and said land from the time said Ray went to the war and to the time the same…